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Friendship Quotes
The best way to destroy an enemy is to make him a friend. Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born." Wishing to be friends is quick work, but friendship is a slow-ripening fruit. We must reach out our hand in friendship and dignity both to those who would befriend us and those who would be our enemy. A good friend remembers what we were and sees what we can be. Love is blind, but friendship closes its eyes. There are big ships and small ships. But the best ship of all is friendship. If you're alone, I'll be your shadow. If you want to cry, I'll be your shoulder. If you want a hug, I'll be your pillow. If you need to be happy, I'll be your smile. But anytime you need a friend, I'll just be me. A friend is someone who is there for you when he'd rather be somewhere else. I don't remember how we happened to meet each other. Don't believe your friends when they ask you to be honest with them. All they really want is to be maintained in the good opinion they have of themselves. In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. If it's very painful for you to criticize your friends -- you're safe in doing it. But if you take the slightest pleasure in it, that's the time to hold your tongue. A child too, can never grasp the fact that the same mother who cooks so well, is so concerned about his cough, and helps so kindly with his homework, in some circumstance has no more feeling than a wall of his hidden inner world. If one is estranged from oneself, then one is estranged from others too. If one is out of touch with oneself, then one cannot touch others.
Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. You can make more friends in two months by becoming really interested in other people, than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you. A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked. An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. I cannot even imagine where I would be today were it not for that handful of friends who have given me a heart full of joy. Let's face it, friends make life a lot more fun. Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art . . . It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival. There is nothing we like to see so much as the gleam of pleasure in a person's eye when he feels that we have sympathized with him, understood him. At these moments something fine and spiritual passes between two friends. These are the moments worth living. You have been my friend. That in itself is a tremendous thing. I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what's a life, anyway? We're born, we live a little while, we die. A spider's life can't help being something of a mess, with all this trapping and eating flies. By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heaven knows anyone's life can stand a little of that. It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief: enemies with the worst intentions or friends with the best. The making of friends, who are real friends, is the best token we have of a man's success in life. The friend is the man who knows all about you, and still likes you. A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same. Friendship with oneself is all important because without it one cannot be friends with anybody else in the world.
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